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What Are the Key Components of a Serverless Print Infrastructure?

January 27th, 2021 by Brian Wistisen

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As IT professionals are looking to move away from legacy print solutions, the idea of a serverless print infrastructure is becoming more widespread. That's true even in large enterprise organizations, where print servers were a necessary evil for far too long.

A serverless print infrastructure brings more flexibility, greater scalability, and increased resiliency to the print environment. Without servers acting as single points of failure, there are fewer moving parts. There's also less to go wrong. And with a centrally managed serverless print solution like PrinterLogic, admins gain increased visibility and control over their printer fleet.

That raises some questions. What are the critical components of a serverless print infrastructure?

If you eliminate print servers, are you giving up functionality? Does moving to a cloud (or SaaS) print solution require a VPN or create WAN dependency?

When you're talking about PrinterLogic SaaS, the answers are all positive. Our serverless print infrastructure does the following:

Minimizes print infrastructure

All you need for serverless printing is an instance of PrinterLogic SaaS and your existing printer fleet. In one fell swoop, you can eliminate print servers without having to worry about purchasing new printer hardware for the sake of compatibility.

Using PrinterLogic's advanced reporting, you can then take printer fleet optimization to the next level and fully streamline your entire print infrastructure.

Keeps print jobs local

For most cloud-based print solutions, the WAN connection is their Achilles heel. If that connection is interrupted, printing is too. If the WAN is congested, the speed of printing and all other Internet activity—can slow to a crawl.

PrinterLogic SaaS uses a direct IP model that routes print jobs right from the client to the printer. It doesn't send print jobs to the cloud to be spooled. That makes printing faster and more reliable. And more secure, too, because local print jobs stay behind your firewall.

Supports native print drivers

Lots of organizations have legacy printers that are fussy about drivers. They've also invested in current-gen hardware with advanced features that are only supported by native drivers. Supporting old hardware alongside the new is a big reason why those organizations are reluctant to eliminate their print servers.

Although you can use universal drivers if you prefer, PrinterLogic SaaS has native driver support that lets you take advantage of printers' full range of features. Plus, its common repository means you manage, update, and roll back printer drivers from one place.

Integrates with printer control panels

These days, security is the watchword in enterprise circles. Admins need an easy way to support features like secure release printing. Users need a straightforward way to release their print jobs from any printer.

PrinterLogic SaaS users can authenticate at their chosen printer and release print jobs securely using either badge release or a native control panel application. Our next-gen Control Panel Applications will soon support 96% of all installed printers.

It doesn't require a VPN connection

Some software print solutions make a big deal of being hosted on a cloud server. But these still require a VPN tunnel into your network, which limits accessibility. A robust, enterprise-class serverless print infrastructure should be accessible from any device with an Internet connection. No VPN is required.

What sets PrinterLogic SaaS apart is that it can be accessed conveniently any virtually anywhere by any authorized user—without IT having to cut corners on security.

Experience the benefits with a no-risk trial

Tazergy provides IT services, including managed print services, to senior-living facilities across the entire United States. When they wanted a cloud-first print solution that would provide them with all the benefits outlined above (and then some), they migrated to PrinterLogic SaaS.

Now they enjoy superior printer and driver management while providing their customers with seamless, reliable print capabilities—all with a serverless SaaS print infrastructure that sees continuous updates and feature releases. Read the case study here.

Are you interested in eliminating all of your print servers?

We deliver a highly available Serverless Printing Infrastructure using a centrally managed Direct IP printing platform. If you want to empower end-users with mobile printing, secure release printing, and many advanced features, we'd love to show you how.

Serverless printing is just one quick demo away.

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